NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting perf package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-PERF-7757955
- published 21 Aug 2024
- disclosed 17 Aug 2024
Introduced: 17 Aug 2024
CVE-2024-42286 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 perf.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qla2xxx: validate nvme_local_port correctly
The driver load failed with error message,
qla2xxx [0000:04:00.0]-ffff:0: register_localport failed: ret=ffffffef
and with a kernel crash,
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000070
Workqueue: events_unbound qla_register_fcport_fn [qla2xxx]
RIP: 0010:nvme_fc_register_remoteport+0x16/0x430 [nvme_fc]
RSP: 0018:ffffaaa040eb3d98 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9dfb46b78c00 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff9dfb46b78da8 RSI: ffffaaa040eb3e08 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff9dfb612a0a58 R08: ffffffffaf1d6270 R09: 3a34303a30303030
R10: 34303a303030305b R11: 2078787832616c71 R12: ffff9dfb46b78dd4
R13: ffff9dfb46b78c24 R14: ffff9dfb41525300 R15: ffff9dfb46b78da8
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9dfc67c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000070 CR3: 000000018da10004 CR4: 00000000000206f0
Call Trace:
qla_nvme_register_remote+0xeb/0x1f0 [qla2xxx]
? qla2x00_dfs_create_rport+0x231/0x270 [qla2xxx]
qla2x00_update_fcport+0x2a1/0x3c0 [qla2xxx]
qla_register_fcport_fn+0x54/0xc0 [qla2xxx]
Exit the qla_nvme_register_remote() function when qla_nvme_register_hba() fails and correctly validate nvme_local_port.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-42286
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3eac973eb5cb2b874b3918f924798afc5affd46b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/549aac9655320c9b245a24271b204668c5d40430
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cec2c3bfe84539c415f5e16f989228eba1d2f1e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3ab508a4853a9f5ae25a7816a4889f09938f63c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cde43031df533751b4ead37d173922feee2f550f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1f010844443c389bc552884ac5cfa47de34d54c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb1d4ce2609584eeb7694866f34d4b213caa3af9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6be298cc1042f24d521197af29c7c4eb95af4d5